Of course, the text of the Revacholian Nationhood thought makes it pretty clear that the whole thought is just about wallowing in spite and self-pity. As a result of internalizing this thought, you can’t even think about the Revacholian Nation without being bitter.

They’ve fucked this place. Revachol is in ruins. The kojkos and the kipts and the armataurs with their desert pygmee magic spinning tops – they’ve fucked it! Oranjese liberals and vespertine moneylenders too. They’re all socialists, especially the women and the kipts. You have only a vague idea what this means, but it’s clear that a good strong state must be erected upon the ruins, if any of us are to have a future. The shadowy outlines of this State start forming every time you close your eyes…

The Revacholian State will be a serene place. (You should get a drink.) A beautiful, serene place of mystery and peace. It will not be a place for women to infect with their frailty and hysterics. Or where the Semenese will be allowed to wear their pants around their ankles. All of that will go. (Once you get a drink.) The socialist professors at the École Supérieure will be fired, the editors of Trompe le Monde will have to beg in the streets. You’ll pour your beer into their begging hats and laugh. (You should get a beer.)

My interpretation is that fascism wounds Harry because it really isn’t in his true nature. It’s a weak, self-defeating philosophy that blames scapegoats and eschews responsibility. For Harry, denigrating women and ethnic minorities is a symptom of his pain and despair. It’s a way to avoid self-reflection. Fascist Harry clings to spite just to distract himself from sadness.

In a game that’s fundamentally about rediscovering yourself, finding purpose, learning to heal… struggling to keep your head above water in a world that drowns… the fascist mentality is like a dead weight around your neck.

I’ll try not to spoil anything, but when/if you get the special fascist political quest from Endurance, I hope you follow it through! It’s very humanizing and thought-provoking.

Pecker! Wait, that’s not a woodpecker, it looks more like…

Yes, we’re sure. Those 34 convictions were all for identical charges of “falsifying business records in the first degree,” related to secret payments made to Stormy Daniels so that she wouldn’t tell anyone about having a sexual affair with him.

… this is Not the Onion, not a serious news community.

Toss my salad, Caesar

Definitely #3, but I’m still waiting for the coffee to kick in.

Huh. In that context, Emperor Little Boots doesn’t seem so silly and strange anymore.

You’re welcome, turkeys!

What did it originally say instead of “Kingdom Algeria?” 🤔

I really like onions on a hot dog but that is too much raw onion

Speaking of native Americans and agricultural practices, this brings to mind the Three Sisters: maize, beans, and squash.

When the three are planted together, intermixed, they support each other and maintain the fertility of the soil. Maize provides upright support for the beans to climb. Squash provides ground cover against weeds. They all use different ratios of key soil nutrients. What’s more, when consumed together, these plants provide all the amino acids needed for high-quality, low-cost vegetarian protein!

I understand that this makes it challenging to harvest large fields and sell each crop individually. And it does nothing for those who produce cotton and tobacco as cash crops. It is a very sustainable way to manage a garden, though!

Is piefed a different thing than lemmy? I assumed it was just another lemmy instance. I’m subscribed to this community using the same reader as the old one, and everything seems to function the same. tbh, I still don’t have a very good grasp of the “fediverse.”

Strictly speaking of soft serve at fast food restaurants? The only one I can think of that is, or was, considered to be real ice cream is Sonic. But I think that might have changed when they overhauled their menu sometime around 2023. Lots of complaints that the consistency of the ice cream changed. I found a nutrition guide from 2018 that had the term “real ice cream” plastered all over it, but the nutrition guide from 2025 doesn’t say “ice cream” anywhere.

McDonald’s, Burger King, A&W all have low-fat soft serve.

Culver’s and Freddy’s have frozen custard.

Braum’s serves real ice cream, but it’s not soft serve. (Their soft serve is classified as frozen yogurt.)

Just to be clear, they’ve never sold ice cream. Their famous soft serve has always been below the minimum milk fat threshold to qualify as ice cream. You won’t find the term “ice cream” anywhere on a Dairy Queen menu or product description.

If it’s temporary then I’d better enjoy it while I can

I like the look of the barbute the best

Assuming that there are many people on here who are left-leaning and even communists

I’m not sure whether to read this as “this is a question for those of you who are leftists or communists,” or to read it as “this is a question for the whole community, which I am assuming are mostly leftists and communists.”

As a centrist myself, no, I don’t like him any less because he’s a centrist. 🙂

I think his political alignment takes a backseat to his overall character. In the fulfillment of his duties and in his dealings with others, he is responsible, honest, and compassionate. I think that’s enough to be a good person.

Even so, his political opinions are presented with nuance. We see that the core values of Moralism resonate with him, but that he is disillusioned with the Moralintern. He’s someone who’s realized that the people of Revachol have been profoundly failed by every school of economic and political thought. He feels that he can do more good for his community by focusing on the small picture rather than the big picture.

OP, does Kim’s centrist stance interfere with your enjoyment of the game, or make you like him any less? Would love to hear your answer, since you posed the question.

America still has an alcohol problem. It may have been worse back then, and it may not be as bad as some other countries today, but still. You can’t convince me there’s anything healthy about the drinking culture surrounding sports, college life, and all manner of special events.

1. The temperance movement wanted prohibition to be extremely difficult to repeal. They wanted abstinence from alcohol to be permanently enshrined in the legal and moral fabric of the nation.

2. At the time, the Supreme Court’s interpretation of federal powers was more narrow than today. Any such act of Congress was likely to face an uphill battle because it would be seen as regulating commerce, and such powers were supposed to be left up to the individual states.